Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers (IAPh) – Program
Venue: Faculty of Law & Letters Bldg.2, Hongo Campus, University of Tokyo
Map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/v1rWAbdphg2fQTuc9
Conference Organiser:
Prof. Dr. Yuko Murakami (Rikkyo University)
Prof. Dr. Noburu Notomi (University of Tokyo)
Prof. Dr. Yukiko Muramoto, Dean of the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo
Prof. Heisook Kim, President of the Federation International des Sociétés philosophiques.
IAPh Speaker Prof. Dr. Cristina Sánchez (Autonomous University of Madrid)
Program (last updated: July 26 with chairs)
Venue: Faculty of Law & Letters Bldg.2, Hongo Campus, University of Tokyo
Map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/v1rWAbdphg2fQTuc9
Day 1 (Friday, August 1, 2025)
| 13:00-14:00
second floor |
Registration |
| 14:00-15:00
Large Room 1 |
Opening Ceremony
Chair: Yuko Murakami, Noburu Notomi
IAPh Congress Organizer Prof. Dr. Yuko Murakami (Rikkyo University) Prof. Dr. Noburu Notomi (University of Tokyo) Pof. Dr. Yukiko Muramoto, Dean of the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo
Prof. Heisook Kim, President of the Federation International des Sociétés philosophiques.
IAPh General Secretary / President of the German Society for Philosophy Prof. Dr. Ruth E. Hagengruber (Paderborn University) IAPh Speaker Prof. Dr. Cristina Sánchez (Autonomous University of Madrid)
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| 15:00-16:30
Large Room 1 |
Session 1
Maternity, Reproduction and Self determination
Chair: Ruth E. Hagengruber
Dr. Christina Chuang (Nanyang Technological University) – #MeToo Movement and Self-Identity in the Age of the Metaverse
Prof. Dr. Katherine Cooklin (Slippery Rock University) – Epistemology of Ignorance, Epistemic Injustice, and Pornography Addiction Discourse
Dr. Mihaela Popa-Wyatt (University of Manchester) – Which Forms of Conceptual Engineering Should We Trust? The Case of Incels
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| 16:30-17:00
Large Room 2 |
Coffee break |
| 17:00-18:00
Large Room 1 |
Keynote 1
Chair: Fumi Yao (The University of Tokyo)
Dr. Yasu Furukawa (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI) – Tsuda Umeko and Biology: A Historical Perspective of Science and Gender
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| 18:30- | Reception Party at Homeikan Morikawa Anex |
Day 2 (Saturday, August 2, 2025)
| Large Room 1 | Large Room 2 | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Session 2
Combining Eastern and Western Philosophical Traditions I
Chair: Maki Sato
Zheng Kou (Heibei Normal University) – Analysis of the Thinking Methods of “Rationality” and “Zhong Dao” – The transformation and direction of ethical thinking concepts in gender philosophy
Dr. Roman Paşca (Akita University) – Making sense of the world through stories – Arguments for a philosophy of the goze
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Session 3
Perspectives from the Western and European History of Women Philosophers I
Chair: Masahiko Abe (The University of Tokyo)
Geraldine Ng (King’s College London; Philosophy Lab CIC) – Radical Uncertainty, Imagination and Iris Murdoch
Dr. Carla Carmona (University of Seville) – Marie de Gournay: autobiography, perception of injustice and mechanisms of disqualification
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| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30-13:00 | Session 4
Combining Eastern and Western Philosophical Traditions II
Chair: Maki Sato
Hyejung Han (Ewha Women’s University) – What can we learn from literary works about feminism? – focus on Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Dr. Maki Sato (Nanzan Institute of Religion and Culture – NIRC) – Chie Nakane and Relational Ethics
Dr. Ellie Hua Wang (National Chengchi University) – Solidarity through Reverence and Care: Insights from Nussbaum and Xunzi
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Session 5
Perspectives from the Western and European History of Women Philosophers II
Chair: Masahiko Abe (The University of Tokyo)
Dr. Ashley Bohrer (Notre Dame University) – Angela Davis and Philosophizing Political Repression
Dr. Jane Connell (University of Melbourne) – Overlooked Women Philosophers of Ancient Greece: the Bacchae and the Theban Sphinx
Abigail Tulenko (Harvard University) – The Sound Of Silence: Murdoch On Love & The Real
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| 13:00-14:30
Room: TBA |
Lunch break and Networking | |
| 14:30-16:30 | Panel 1
Women Philosophers Perspectives from the Early 20th Century
Chair: Ruth E. Hagengruber
Dr. Ivana Skuhala Karasman (Institute for Philosophy Zagreb) – Feminism in the Literary Works of Helene Druskowitz
Dr. Dr. Luka Borsic (Institute for Philosophy Zagreb) – The (proto)radical feminism of Helene Druskowitz
Prof. Dr. Marian Pérez Bernal (Universidad Pablo de Olavide) – Attention and Action in Simone Weil. A call to responsibility
Malwina Tkacz (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw) – Crisis and Hope in Simone Weil
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| 16:30-17:00 | Coffee break | |
| 17:00-18:00 | Keynote 2
Chair: Noburu Notomi
Prof. Dr. Heisook Kim (Ewha Women’s University) – TBA
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Day 3 (Sunday, August 3, 2025)
| Large Room 1 | Large Room 2 | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Session 6
Current Political Perspectives on Philosophy, Feminism and Gender I
Chair: Cristina Sánchez
Prof. Dr. Kateryna Karpenko (Kharkiv National Medical University) – Analytical framework for the study of women’s experience and women’s subjectivity during war
Prof. Dr. Martha Palacio-Avendaño (University of Alcalá) – Political Kinship and Social belonging in Gloria Anzaldúa’s work: Borderlands, Nepantla and Interdependence
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Session 7
Perspectives from the Western and European History of Women Philosophers III
Chair: Priyanka Jha
Dr. Lisa Kampen (Radboud University) – The Need for Disciplinary Boundaries: Ethics and Religion in Mary Whiton Calkins’s Philosophy and Psychology
Ethan R. Vorster (Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori Pavia) – Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Helen Longino and Female Contributions to Scientific Thought
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| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30-13:00 | Session 8
Current Political Perspectives on Philosophy, Feminism and Gender II
Chair: Kateryna Karpenko
Laura Gillot-Assayag (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales / Keio University) – Agonistic Democracy Revisited? The Complementary Role of Compromise Ethics in Chantal Mouffe’s Agonistic Theory
V.M. Giouli – Who is Afraid of Barbie (Anti-)Culture?
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Session 9
Women Philosophers on Theories of Confucianism I
Chair: Ching-Yuen Cheung
Prof. Dr. Wei Xiao (Tsinghua University) – Organoid Research: A Dialogue Between Truth and Goodness Within the Confucian Ethical Framework
Wanpu Xu (Heibei Normal University) – Confucian Culture and the Status of Women
Dr. Masashi Kasaki (Nagoya University) – Epistemic Injustice and Gendered Virtues in the Confucian Tradition: Makuzu Tadano and Bakin Takizawa
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| 13:00-14:30
Room: TBA |
Lunch break and Networking | |
| 14:30-16:30 | Panel 2
Panel: Women Philosophers on AI, Data & Technology
Chair: Ching-Yuen Cheung
Dr. Jeesun Rhee (Choonam National University) – The Physics of Mattering and the Ethics of Matter: Rethinking Oppenheimer through Hayashi’s Hibakusha Literature and Barad’s Ethico-onto-epistemology
Dr. Natalie Nenadic (University of Kentucky) – Thinking with Hannah Arendt about AI Deepfake Pornography
Beifen Dei (Beihang University) – Datafied Gender Performativity: The Complicity of Platform Capitalism and Algorithmic Patriarchy
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| 16:30-17:00 | Coffee break | |
| 17:00-18:00 | IAPh General Assembly
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Day 4 (Monday, August 4, 2025)
| Large Room 1 | Large Room 2 | |
| 9:30-11:30 | Session 10
Women Philosophers in Academia: Achievements, Obstacles and Challenges
Chair / Speaker: Prof. Dr. Cristina Sánchez (Autonomous University of Madrid)
Dr. Priyanka Jha (Banaras Hindu University)
Prof. Dr. Kateryna Karpenko (Kharkiv National Medical University)
Prof. Dr. Martha Palacio-Avendaño (University of Alcalá)
Prof. Dr. Wei Xiao (Tsinghua University)
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Session 11
Perspectives from Asian Women Philosophers
Chair: Kateryna Karpenko
Karen Connie Abalos-Orendain (University of the Philippines) – Focus on Praxis : Challenges of Introducing Filipino Women Philosophers to the World
Natividad Dominique Manauat (De La Salle University) – Reimagining Glocalized Care: Comparing Feminist Bioethical Discourses in Western, Eastern and Filipino Perspectives
Dr. Hsiang-Yun Chen (Academia Sinica) – Beyond Anglocentrism: Cross-Linguistic Considerations in Gendered Pronoun Reform
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| 11:30-12:00 | Coffee break | |
| 12:00-13:00 | Session 12
Women Philosophers on Theories of Confucianism II
Chair: Cristina Sánchez
Demin Xu (Paris Institute of Political Studies) – Are Feminism and Confucianism incompatible?
Dr. Ning Zhao (Shanghai University) – Caring through Confucian Concepts of Ti (体) and Yong (用): A Normative Foundation for Care Ethics
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Session 13
Feminist Philosophies
Chair: Luka Borsic
Dr. Saori Makino (Rikkyo University) – Femininity Embedded in Philosophy: Rereading Wittgenstein Through Scheman’s Critique of Skepticism
Dr. Priyanka Jha (Banaras Hindu University) – On ‘Being Human’: Exploring Women writings from Modern India (1850s-1950s)
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| Room: TBA
13:00-14:30 |
Lunch break and Networking
(13:00-14:30) |
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| 14:30-16:30 | Panel 3
Panel EcoTechGender: Economy, Ecology, Technology, and Gender as Frames of Thought (hybrid)
Chair: Luka Borsic
Prof. Dr. Ma. Theresa Payongayong (University of the Philippines Diliman) – Understanding Filipino Philosophy through a Feminist Analysis of Emerita Quito’s Schematization of Philosophy
Dr. Karen Connie Abalos (University of the Philippines Diliman) – Focus on Praxis : Challenges of Introducing Filipino Women Philosophers to the World
Dr. Lilybeth Centeno-Lumagbas (University of the Philippines Diliman) – Hilot, Women, and the Ecology of Care
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| 16:30-17:00 | Coffee break | |
| 17:00-18:00 | Award Ceremony of the Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize 2025 (online)
Keynote 3
Chair: Ruth E. Hagengruber
Emeritus Prof. Keiko Kawashima (Nagoya Institute of Technology) – How the Gender Perspective Changed the History of Science – Émilie Du Châtelet’s ambition for her own reputation
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Day 5 (Tuesday, August 5, 2025)
| 9:30-11:30
Large Room 1 |
Panel 4
EcoTechGender. Women Philosophers on Economics, Ecology and Technology
Chair: Yuko Murakami
Speakers: Prof. Dr. Kateryna Karpenko (Kharkiv National Medical University) – Women and digital technologies in wartime
Dr. Ingrid Becker (University of Sankt Gallen/Ruhr-University Bochum) – Giving between inexhaustibility and exhaustibility
Prof Dr. Priyanka Jha (Banaras Hindu University) – Ecological Underpinnings in the Gendered Philosophies from India
Prof. Dr. Ruth Edith Hagengruber (Paderborn University) – Time is money. A proposal for a new kind of economic calculation
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| 11:45-12:45
Large Room 1 |
Keynote 4
Chair: Priyanka Jha
Prof. Dr. Cristina Sánchez (Autonomous University of Madrid)
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| 12:45-13:00
Large Room 1 |
Closing Ceremony |
| 13:00-14:30
Room: TBA |
Lunch and Networking |
| 15:00-18:00 | Excursion |
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